Batgirl HBO Max adds trans actress Ivory Aquino as Alysia Yeoh

The cast of HBO Max Adil El Arbi and Bilal Fallah The bat girl continues to grow, today adds a best friend for Barbara Gordon: Ivory Aquino, who will play bartender Alysia Yeoh — Barbara’s former roommate who is also one of the most famous in DC Comics trans characters. Deadline he reported the news.

Prior to that, Aquino played transgender civil rights leader Cecilia Chung in the 2017 ABC documentaries. When we get up, who researched the history of LGBT activism in the United States; appeared in Ava DuVernayThe 2019 Netflix series When they see us. Here he joins an acting team that includes Leslie Grace (In heights) in the title role and JK Simmons as Batgirl / Barbara’s father, Gotham City Police Commissioner Jim Gordon.

Additionally: Michael Keaton is (famously) intends to reprise his role as Batman about Tim Burton’s films, doc Brendan Fraser plays a villain (although we don’t know yet who villain). With the script from Christine Hodson (Bumblebee, Birds of Prey)adapted from a comic strip by writer Gail Simone and artist Ardian Syaf, The bat girl it is expected to arrive on HBO Max later this year.

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